Bad Times At The El Royale (2018), Bad Times At The El Royale

Drew Goddard, who wrote the screenplays for “Cloverfield” và “The Martian” và wrote và directed “The Cabin in the Woods,” is a very clever filmmaker. His new picture, the second feature he’s both written & directed, is called “Bad Times at the El Royale,” và it’s an unfortunately apt demonstration of what can befall a clever filmmaker who gets too clever.

The movie opens with a teasing phối piece that’s well executed and promising. A shot of a room in a relatively upscale motor hotel. A man in a trenchcoat with a bloodied arm enters, carrying duffel bags. In a series of jump-cut shots all from the same camera position we see the man move all the furniture to lớn one kết thúc of the room, roll up the carpet, pull up the floorboards, leave the duffel bag under the floor, put the room back together again, and wait. Another man arrive và kills the poor fellow who buried the bag. Apparently this fellow is unaware of what the now dead guy has been up to. A title card says “Ten Years Later” và it’s a sunny day & we know that whatever’s in that duffel bag is still under the floor at what we now know to lớn be the El Royale.

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A novel feature of the place is discussed by the first two characters we meet, Jeff Bridges’ Father Daniel Flynn và Cynthia Erivo’s Darlene Sweet. The lodging is built on đứng đầu of the border between Nevada và California, & the hotel rooms are especially styled for each side. The Nevada side is the one with a casino, although the license for this one has expired. The place has seen better days. As borne out by the fact that once Darlene & Daniel go inside to check in, they’re met by an obnoxiously garrulous appliance salesman named Laramie who’s been cooling his heels in the lobby while no staff members manifest themselves.

Played by an enjoyably unctuous Jon Hamm, Laramie gives a spiel—drenched in a very inauthentic Biloxi accent—until Darlene’s sharp knock on an employees-only door rouses the somnolent bellboy Miles (Lewis Pullman) who flies into an odd panic when he sees a priest trying to kiểm tra in. The question of why, and other questions, go by the wayside, drowned out by a loud automobile pulling into the lodge’s lot, motored by a very surly Dakota Johnson, who signs the log book with a two-word epithet.

A television video clip of Richard Nixon explaining the nature of guerilla warfare & why a conventional “ceasefire” might not do the trick in Vietnam fixes the movie’s time period in 1970 or so. But that’s the only thing we can be sure of once the clients have checked in and entered their rooms. Hamm’s character makes a phone call, during which he drops the accent—and starts plucking out various listening devices from the phone he’s speaking on. Darlene hangs blankets on her walls, puts a metronome on a mantlepiece, and begins singing. Johnson’s character takes an unconscious and bound-up woman out of her trunk và sits her in a chair in her room. Và Father Daniel moves the furniture khổng lồ one side of his room, rolls up the carpet, & starts pulling up the floorboards.

“Bad Times at the El Royale” has a lot of plot. Almost enough to support its 140-minute running time. But once the threads are more or less pulled together, the movie devolves into a bloody, drawn-out standoff plot in which a preening villain struts around being appalling while the camera eats up his every move. This elicits the disapprobation of Darlene, who takes a look at what’s going on & pronounces lớn said villain, who’s trying to get her to lớn bet her life on a spin of a roulette wheel: “I’m just tired. I’m just bored of men like you.” At this point I wrote in my notes: “Yeah me too.”

Goddard seems under the impression that this khung of auto-critique gives the film’s sadism some kind of pass. But he’s wrong. & that is what’s called being too clever for your own good. That & naming your character “Darlene Sweet” and including a flashback that puts her at the mercy of a faux-Phil Spector character.

HD. Several strangers meet up at a rundown Lake Tahoe khách sạn in 1969 for a violent & fateful night filled with wild twists và turns.

Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English Directors
Drew Goddard
Producers
Jeremy Latcham, Drew Goddard
Starring
Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson
Studio20th Century Fox

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